469 - How to Know What Work You Need to Focus On Now

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It’s difficult to know where to focus your creative energy. If you don’t know whether you should be learning a new skill, diving deep into a new project or marketing something you’ve already done, this episode is for you! -------- SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller sophiemiller.co Audio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones pendingbeautiful.co Soundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? whywithaquestionmark.com Dan Harmon, Story Circle https://boords.com/blog/storytelling-101-the-dan-harmon-story-circle The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carrier https://gailcarriger.com/books/hj/ Also mentioned the Maureen Murdock book by the same name SPONSORS: Immaterial: 5,000 Years of Art, One Material at a Time a podcast by The Met - Each episode examines a material of art, like clay... stone... trash... and what they can reveal about history and humanity. You’ll get a sense of the meaningfulness of these materials, and see them in a whole new way. Check out Immaterial here: https://bio.to/ImmaterialPodcast!PScreativepeptalk Pixite Apps https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=1485310935&code=PEPTALK

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0:00.0	On the creative journey it's easy to get lost but don't worry you'll lift off
0:10.0	sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:15.0	Hey, you're listening to Creative Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.
0:26.7	I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza.
0:28.3	I'm a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and this show is everything
0:32.4	I'm learning about building and maintaining a thriving
0:35.2	creative practice. So we had one of my favorite musicians of all time on the show recently.
0:50.1	Yoni Wolf.
0:51.1	It's also the guy whose music starts the show and he sings the intro in case you didn't know.
0:57.4	And on his new album there's a song called Brand New and there's a lyric on that that really stood out to me and my wife Sophie,
1:07.0	who's also an artist and creative person.
1:10.0	And the lyric is,
1:12.0	tell me what the work is,
1:15.0	tell me what the work is. And tell me what the work is hit hard because
1:21.0	creative people are divergent thinkers.
1:26.4	We often don't struggle with coming up with new ideas.
1:31.0	We almost always struggle more with knowing which ideas to pursue.
1:37.0	Which ones should we act on?
1:39.0	And then if we go to act on any of them, what order should we work on them in? How do we know how to access the part
1:46.9	of ourselves that we need for the work that we're doing right now? How do we know what work deserves our attention? Tell us what the work is. It's such a
1:57.2	poignant phrase if you're a creator. And if you're the type of person where right now you are stuck, just wishing you
2:06.0	know, new, which work to put your attention to. If you're the type of person that is plagued by not knowing like should I be learning new software
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